tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:38:39 +0000CemeteriesAmerican HistoryIconographyParanormal reading.Political biographyBook ReviewMusic HistoryWelcome message.childrengravesunusualhttp://www.historywolf.com/noreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)Blogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-3998848824680250325Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +00002009-10-22T14:54:21.921-07:00A lot of times, when I'm out and about in a cemetery, I come across graves with hands carved on them. Hands are a common symbol in the world of iconography, but ones that play an important part.It all began many thousands of years ago, when Christianity was still in it's infancy. Owing to a misreading of the book of Exodus, showing any pictorial, or written description of God was strictly http://www.historywolf.com/2009/10/grave-matters-show-of-hands.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-309947953167632934Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:22:00 +00002009-10-15T15:37:09.133-07:00It all began in 1831. It was in this year that Mt Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts became the first landscaped and designed cemetery in the America. A place not just for the dead, but created for the enjoyment of the living. Inspired by Paris' Pere La Chaise cemetery it was the first to follow the natural contours of the landscape with winding roads and vistas pleasing to the eye with http://www.historywolf.com/2009/10/grave-matters-unusual-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-3147415895491773047Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +00002009-10-12T09:29:09.742-07:00CemeterieschildrengravesunusualOnce in awhile, while I'm walking about a cemetery, I come across a grave or two that are so unique, so different that I'll just stand there and take in every piece of detail. These are three of the most unusual graves I've come across. The first two images are from California cemeteries and both have representations of a sleeping child incorporated into their design, while the last is from http://www.historywolf.com/2009/10/grave-matters-unusual.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-4487184629042101110Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:33:00 +00002009-09-28T11:06:29.348-07:00Pictured here are two more examples of Cherubim, one from a cemetery on the Central Coast of California, and the other from a cemetery near Olympia, Washington. In this case, both are seen standing, with one on clouds, and the other with small branch behind the leg to provide stability to the statue, and both were carved as female figures in downward gaze with a small bouquet of flowers carried http://www.historywolf.com/2009/09/grave-matters-cherubs-pt-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-6654864907887669440Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:02:00 +00002009-09-28T10:28:23.802-07:00Along with lambs, and doves, cherubs are also used as visual markers on a child's headstone. Cherubs, or Cherubim, are the second part of the first sphere in the order of angels, the first being the Seraphim. In early symbolism, they were known as the bearers of the Throne of God, and they were said to have four wings and four faces. Their name comes to us from the Ancient Assyrian word "Karibu",http://www.historywolf.com/2009/09/grave-matters-cherubs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-144758850918045930Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:33:00 +00002009-09-28T10:02:41.073-07:00CemeteriesIconographyThe second most popular and frequent symbol on a child's grave is the lamb. Lambs are used to denote innocence and can be commonly found on infants graves. They are also a reference to Christ as found in the New Testament in the Book of John, chapter 1, verse 29 "Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world". Christ is also referred to as the Shepherd in the bible for the way http://www.historywolf.com/2009/09/grave-matters-lamb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-1728360569179501089Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:15:00 +00002009-09-28T09:33:09.010-07:00CemeteriesIconographyProbably the most common animal found in any cemetery is that of the dove. Used to denote innocence and a representation of the holy trinity, they usually mark the graves of children, but they can also be found on adult headstones as well.Typically the sculpture is three dimensional and perched on top of the marker if it's a child's grave. In other forms, the dove can be carved to make it appear http://www.historywolf.com/2009/09/grave-matters-doves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-2322035525945294825Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:39:00 +00002009-08-27T14:06:28.518-07:00The first tycoon: the epic life of Cornelius VanderbiltCopyright 2009 By T, J StilesAlfred A. Knopf Publishing, New YorkISBN 978-0-375-41542-5Hardcover719 PP w/ illustrationsUS $37.50CD $45.00If I had to choose one book from the list I've read this year, one that is an absolute must read, it's The First Tycoon. Author T.J. Stiles gives us a look a into the life of one 19th centuries most http://www.historywolf.com/2009/08/grand-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-2569359107234536900Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:56:00 +00002009-08-03T15:44:29.547-07:00Paranormal reading.Haunted HomelandCopyright 2006 by Michael NormanA Forge BookPublished by Tom Doherty Associates LLC New YorkISBN 13-978-0-765-30172-7448 PP$17.95 HardcoverOver the past twelve years of doing paranormal research, I've read a large volume of books, and as a result have a rather extensive collection covering cities and towns, states and countries from Europe to the US. Some are truly standouts with http://www.historywolf.com/2009/08/goosebumps-and-shivers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-7999246220743709982Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:46:00 +00002009-07-29T13:46:53.536-07:00American HistoryPolitical biographyAn Unfinished LifeJohn F. Kennedy1917-1963By Robert DallekCopyright 2003Little, Brown and CompanyISBN 0-316-17238-3838 PP w/ IllustrationsHardcover $30.00 US $45.00 CDI grew up hearing about JFK from my father(even though,God love him, voted for Nixon in 1960)and to this day, some 46 years after his assassination in Dallas, he still remembers in vivid detail where he was and what he was doing at http://www.historywolf.com/2009/07/what-might-have-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-2228271600981192169Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:34:00 +00002009-07-28T13:24:57.340-07:00Paris The Secret HistoryBy Andrew Hussey.Copyright 2006Published by Bloomsbury USA, New YorkISBN 1-59691-323-1485 PP W/ Illustrations$32.50It seems fitting to write today's blog post about the history of the City of Paris. On this day in 1794, Maximilian Robespierre, leader of Committee of Public Safety and known as "The Incorruptible" took his last trip through the streets of Paris in a cart to http://www.historywolf.com/2009/07/along-banks-of-seine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-5579695503089618891Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:50:00 +00002009-07-15T15:30:16.527-07:00Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul. By Karen AbbottCopyright 2007Random House Publishing GroupISBN 978-1-4000-6530Hardcover356 PP $25.95The Love Pirate and the Bandit's Son: Murder, Sin and Scandal in the Shadow of Jesse James. By Laura JamesCopyright 2009Union Square PressISBN 978-1-4027-6069-3Hardcover306 PP$19.95First off, no, this is not thehttp://www.historywolf.com/2009/07/two-madams-and-love-pirate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-6491703398208480941Mon, 18 May 2009 16:42:00 +00002009-05-18T10:49:14.551-07:00American HistoryManhunt:The 12-day Chase For Lincoln's KillerBy James L. Swanson2006, Harper-Collins PublisherISBN 13:978-0-06-051849-3448 pp with illustrations$26.95The events of the night of April 14, 1865 are indelibly inked into the pages American History. The Civil War, the bloodiest four years the country had ever witnessed is now at an end, and there is cause for celebration in the streets of Washington, http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/crime-of-century.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-1246957766277075829Fri, 15 May 2009 15:42:00 +00002009-05-17T09:21:22.858-07:00KateThe Woman Who Was Hepburnby William J. MannHenry Holt and Company2006ISBN 13:978-0-80507625-7621 PP$35.00She was legendarily feisty, self assured, a trailblazer, and above all, an actress whose career took her to new heights and established her as an American icon. She was Hepburn.For most of her life however, Kate was an enigma. Those who tried to figure her out, even those closest to her http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/american-enigma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-3863145678959902717Thu, 14 May 2009 17:39:00 +00002009-05-14T11:57:17.943-07:00I lived on the Central Caost of California for three years from 1989 until 1992, and many is the timeI would see it's beacon flashing and illuminating the fog from across the bay and someday I told myself I'd take a hike out there and see it. Well, that was 17 years ago, and I never did until yesterday when I took the guided 7 mile round trip hike, and I was well rewarded for my efforts to visit http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/guiding-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-8391057593616320969Wed, 06 May 2009 15:40:00 +00002009-05-06T09:22:29.067-07:00Political biography1960LBJ vs JFK vs NixonThe Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidenciesby David PietruszaUnion Square PressISBN 978-1-4027-6114-0523 pp with illustrations$24.95 HardcoverAsk anyone, and they will tell you politics is a very dirty game, a world where shady backroom deals are made and lives change in the wink of an eye.David Pietrusza takes us into that world, a world where money truly talks, and http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/not-politics-as-usual.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-3821307551974152504Wed, 06 May 2009 15:17:00 +00002009-05-06T08:40:22.067-07:00Paranormal reading.Ghost Stories of California's Gold Rush Country and Yosemite National Park.By Antonio R. GarcezISBN 0-9634029-8-6Red Rabbit Press, New Mexico207 pp with illustrationsMy interest in the paranormal sciences goes back to when I was a kid. I was fascinated by books about ghosts, and reading about them. So when I had the chance five years ago to co-found a paranormal research group with some friends Ihttp://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/goosebumps-guaranteed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-8657833405681074310Sat, 02 May 2009 16:18:00 +00002009-05-02T13:58:19.988-07:00Once upon a time, there were three kings. Actually, three kings of England, all named Richard.....And one no one has ever heard of.The first, King Richard I, was called Le Couer De Leon, or The Lion Hearted. Richard loved one thing and one thing only, the sights, sounds and smells of battle, and battle he did. Personally leading the charge to retake Jersulem from Saladin, a charge that failed, http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/we-three-kings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-3295019634154063795Fri, 01 May 2009 22:36:00 +00002009-05-02T14:02:25.474-07:00In 1991 Kevin Costner gave us his version of the legend of Robin Hood, but sadly, it was, like earlier versions, a complete myth. The legends passed down are just that, legends.So what was crime and punishment like in Medieval England? Surprisingly until the Norman Invasion of 1066, remarkably peaceful. Many Anglo Saxon towns policed themselves and violence, and crime was low. There was even a http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/fetch-thumb-screws.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-5800849017544160846Fri, 01 May 2009 21:47:00 +00002009-05-01T15:04:23.589-07:00Most people would if asked, probably say that medicine and the sciences of the Middle Ages were a lot of quackery and hogwash, and that the Church forbade any delving into anything that upset God's order. But then how does one explain the philosopher and the alchemist? Learned church men such as Roger Bacon who not only invented the spectrum some 400 years before Newton, but also invented the http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/tricks-and-magic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-6398810567385928266Fri, 01 May 2009 21:01:00 +00002009-05-01T14:10:57.800-07:00A swift and valiant horse, and an honorable knight, charging into battle, saving and wooing the fair damsel in distress....Hardly.Forget all your ideas of chivalric knights battling for love and honor. This episode covers what being a knight actually was, and for the most part it was love of slaughter and love of money that drove the knights, and turned them inot mercenaries and soldiers of http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/pray-thee-good-sir-knight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-3889223689770521234Fri, 01 May 2009 19:36:00 +00002009-05-01T12:49:13.412-07:00In part four, we now encounter the world of the minstrel, or "little servant" from which the word is derived. Minstrels, and their later counterparts, the Troubadour, were very much an integral part of the Medieval lanscape and the fabric of court life. And some were quite famous, as their names have been passed down to us throughout history, the most of course being Geoffrey Chaucer.But in this http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/strike-harp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-6320452431948511119Fri, 01 May 2009 18:23:00 +00002009-05-01T11:32:29.886-07:00We come now to Episode 3 Season One, "The Damsel." If you think women during the Middle Ages were the come hither beauties eager to be rescued in their hour of need by a knight in shining armor on a white steed, think again.Women were anything but chaste, demure or pure in those days. Take for instance the story of Christina of Markyate who in 1066 defied her parents, and the very Bishop of http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/not-your-usual-fairy-tale-ending.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-2483269643466406944Fri, 01 May 2009 17:42:00 +00002009-05-01T10:49:32.620-07:00This, the second in the new series of Terry Jones' Medieval Times" takes a look at the role of the church in English History from it's humble beginnings with Saint Benedict, who gave the world the Benedictine Order, to the righteous and extremely wealthy Cistercians who virtually owned England, (and ran a few brothels too) and the King, until Henry VIII put a stop to everything and spoiled all http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/monks-tale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-703987531385684440.post-6548413473823054178Fri, 01 May 2009 17:40:00 +00002009-05-01T10:41:22.636-07:00Being a history buff, and a rather ardent Anglophile, I've spent countless hours ensconced in British History, reading the history's and chronicles of the Kings and Queens of England, and with only a slight gap during the Georgian Period, I've come to think I knew everything there was to know about English history.That was until this morning when I went onto You Tube and found this fascinating http://www.historywolf.com/2009/05/exciting-series.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (C Thomas Cooney)1